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Job 15:14
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What is a mere human, that he should be pure,or one born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
What is man, that he should be clean? He who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
"How can anyone be pure? How can someone born to a woman be good?
What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
"What is man, that he should be pure and clean, Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous and just?
"What is man, that he would be pure, Or he who is born of a woman, that he would be righteous?
What is man, that he should be clean? He who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
What is man, that he should be cleane? and he that is borne of woman, that he shoulde be iust?
What is man, that he should be pure,Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
No human is pure and innocent,
"What is a human being, that he could be innocent, someone born from a woman, that he could be righteous?
What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
"People cannot really be pure. They cannot be more right than God!
What is man, that he should be innocent? Or he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Can any human being be really pure? Can anyone be right with God?
"What is a human being, that he can be clean, or that one born of a woman can be righteous?
What is man that he should be clean? And he born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
What is man, that he shulde be vncleane? what hath he (which is borne of a woman) wherby he might be knowne to be rightuous?
What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?
What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
What is man, that he should be cleane? and he which is borne of a woman, that he should be righteous?
What is man, that he should be cleane? and he which is borne of a woman, whereby he might be righteous?
For who, being a mortal, is such that he shall be blameless? or, who that is born of a woman, that he should be just?
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
What is a man, that he be with out wem, and that he borun of a womman appere iust?
What is common man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he who is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
"What is man, that he could be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he could be righteous?
What is man, that he can be pure, or he who is born of a woman, that he can be right and good?
What are mortals, that they can be clean? Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?
What is a mortal, that he should be pure? or that righteous should be one born of a woman?
What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?
What is man, that he can be clean? Or he that is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
What [is] man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?
"What is man, that he should be pure, Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
is man: Job 9:2, Job 14:4, Job 25:4-6, 1 Kings 8:46, 2 Chronicles 6:36, Psalms 14:3, Psalms 51:5, Proverbs 20:9, Ecclesiastes 7:20, Ecclesiastes 7:29, John 3:6, Romans 7:18, Galatians 3:22, Ephesians 2:2, Ephesians 2:3, 1 John 1:8-10
Reciprocal: Genesis 5:3 - in his Genesis 8:21 - the imagination Leviticus 12:2 - If a woman Job 4:17 - shall a man Job 11:12 - man be Job 14:1 - born Psalms 58:3 - estranged Psalms 130:3 - shouldest mark Psalms 143:2 - in thy sight Psalms 144:3 - what is man Proverbs 21:8 - way Isaiah 64:6 - are all Jeremiah 17:9 - General Matthew 1:18 - of the Matthew 11:11 - born Mark 7:21 - out Luke 11:13 - being Luke 18:19 - General John 3:7 - Ye John 9:34 - wast Acts 4:27 - thy Romans 3:10 - none 1 Corinthians 4:4 - yet Philippians 3:9 - not Titus 3:5 - by works Hebrews 2:6 - What
Cross-References
Some time later, the Lord spoke to Abram in a vision and said to him, "Do not be afraid, Abram, for I will protect you, and your reward will be great."
But Abram replied, "O Sovereign Lord , what good are all your blessings when I don't even have a son? Since you've given me no children, Eliezer of Damascus, a servant in my household, will inherit all my wealth.
Then the Lord said to him, "No, your servant will not be your heir, for you will have a son of your own who will be your heir."
Then the Lord took Abram outside and said to him, "Look up into the sky and count the stars if you can. That's how many descendants you will have!"
And Abram believed the Lord , and the Lord counted him as righteous because of his faith.
Then the Lord told him, "I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land as your possession."
The Lord told him, "Bring me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
Some vultures swooped down to eat the carcasses, but Abram chased them away.
But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and in the end they will come away with great wealth.
So the Lord made a covenant with Abram that day and said, "I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River—
Gill's Notes on the Bible
What [is] man, that he should be clean?.... Frail, feeble, mortal man, or woeful man, as Mr. Broughton renders it; since he is sinful, whereby he is become such a weak and dying creature: this question, as well as the following, is put by way of contempt, and as lessening man in a comparative sense, and in order to abate any high conceit of himself; who is not naturally clean, but the reverse, being conceived and born in sin; nor can he be so of himself, nor by any means he is capable of; and however clean he may be in his own eyes, or in the eyes of others, yet is not clean in the sight of God, and still less pure than him, his Maker, as in Job 4:17; and indeed cannot be clean at all, but through the grace of God, and blood of Christ, which cleanses from all sin:
and [he which is] born of a woman; a periphrasis of man, Job 14:1;
that he should be righteous? as no man is naturally; there is none righteous, no, not one; though man originally was made righteous, yet sinning he lost his righteousness, and all his posterity are without any; nor can they become righteous of themselves, or by any works of righteousness done by them; and though they may trust in themselves that they are righteous, and may appear outwardly so before men, yet by the deeds of the law no flesh can be justified or accounted righteous in the sight of God, and much less be more just than he, as in Job 4:17; nor can any of the sons of men be made or reckoned righteous but by the obedience of Christ, or by that justifying righteousness that is in him: what Eliphaz here says concerning the impurity, imperfection, and unrighteousness of men, are very great truths; but if he aims at Job, as he seems to do he misses his mark, and mistakes the man, and it is in vain with respect to him, or as a refutation of any notions of his; for Job asserts the corruption and depravity of human nature as strongly as it is expressed here,
Job 14:4; nor does he ever claim, but disclaims, sinless perfection, Job 9:20; nor did he expect to be personally justified before God by any righteousness of his own, the imperfection of which he was sensible of, but by the righteousness of his living Redeemer, Job 9:30; but what he pleaded for was the integrity and uprightness of his heart in opposition to hypocrisy he was charged with; and the holiness and righteousness of his life and conversation, in opposition to a course of living in sin, or to his being guilty of some notorious sin or sins for which he was afflicted, as was insinuated. Eliphaz here recurs to his oracle, Job 4:17; and expresses it much to the same sense.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
What is man that he should be clean? - The object of Eliphaz in this is to overturn the positions of Job that he was righteous, and had been punished beyond his deserts. He had before maintained Job 4:7, that no one ever perished being innocent, and that the righteous were not cut off. This was with him a favorite position; and indeed the whole drift of the argument maintained by him and his friends was, to prove that uncommon calamities were proof of uncommon guilt. Job had insisted on it that he was a righteous man, and had not deserved the calamities which had come upon him - a position which Eliphaz seems to have regarded as an assertion of innocence. To meet this he now maintains that no one is righteous; that all that are born of women are guilty; and in proof of this he goes back to the oracle which had made so deep an impression on his mind, and to the declaration then made to him that no one was pure before God; Job 4:0: He does not repeat it exactly as the oracle was then delivered to him, but adverts to the substance of it, and regards it as final and indisputable. The meaning is, “What are all the pretensions of man to purity, when even the angels are regarded as impure and the heavens unclean?”
He which is born of a woman - Another mode of denoting man. No particular argument to maintain the doctrine of man’s depravity is couched in the fact that he is born of a woman. The sense is, simply, how can anyone of the human family be pure?
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 15:14. What is man, that he should be clean? — מה אנוש mah enosh; what is weak, sickly, dying, miserable man, that he should be clean? This is the import of the original word enosh.
And - born of a woman, that he should be righteous? — It appears, from many passages in the sacred writings, that natural birth was supposed to be a defilement; and that every man born into the world was in a state of moral pollution. Perhaps the word יצדק yitsdak should be translated, that he should justify himself, and not that he should be righteous.
